FGM Major General

Italian Carabinieri (military police) display the newspaper Avanti! of the Italian Socialist Party with the headline reading “Mussolini Executed”. Although the Carabinieri assisted in the suppression of opposition during the rule of Benito Mussolini, they were also responsible for his downfall and many units were disbanded by the occupying Germans, which resulted in large numbers of Carabinieri joining the Italian Resistance. Rome, Lazio, Italy. 29 April 1945